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Former FBI Director James Comey Reveals How Apple and Google's Encryption Efforts Drove Him 'Crazy' (fastcompany.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: In his explosive new book, A Higher Loyalty, fired FBI director James Comey denounces President Trump as "untethered to the truth" and likens him to a "mob boss," but he also touches on other topics during his decades-long career in law enforcement -- including his strong objection to the tech industry's encryption efforts. When Apple and Google announced in 2014 that they would be moving their mobile devices to default encryption, by emphasizing that making them immune to judicial orders was good for society, "it drove me crazy," he writes. He goes on to lament the lack of "true listening" between tech and law enforcement, saying that "the leaders of the tech companies don't see the darkness the FBI sees," such as terrorism and organized crime.
He writes, "I found it appalling that the tech types couldn't see this. I would frequently joke with the FBI 'Going Dark' team assigned to seek solutions, 'Of course the Silicon Valley types don't see the darkness -- they live where it's sunny all the time and everybody is rich and smart." But Comey understood it was an unbelievably difficult issue and that public safety had to be balanced with privacy concerns.
He writes, "I found it appalling that the tech types couldn't see this. I would frequently joke with the FBI 'Going Dark' team assigned to seek solutions, 'Of course the Silicon Valley types don't see the darkness -- they live where it's sunny all the time and everybody is rich and smart." But Comey understood it was an unbelievably difficult issue and that public safety had to be balanced with privacy concerns.
He needlessly reopened an investigation 10 days before the election handing the election to Trump, and then he catches Trump red-handed committing treason.
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I hope it continues to drive him and others of his ilk crazy.
We do see the darkness coming, but it is not the same darkness he is seeing. In fact, his darkness is like dusk to the darkness that could engulf us with the current trend of things in various areas.
Full stop.
it would be nice to see how "crazy" he would feel if his own phone was hacked, his personal bank accounts stolen, his medical history made public, his emails analyzed in a foreign county just because a backdoor was mandatory for mobile devices.
Because Trump has Comey pretty dead to rights on some leaks of information he was not authorized to share with the press. Trump would have been well within his legal rights and authority to haul Sessions into his office and bluntly tell him to impanel a grand jury under the principle that if we're going to prosecute seamen for taking selfies, we ought to crucify the Director of the FBI for acting like leaks are his discretionary power.
I am by no means rich and I live where it is pretty damn dark and cold 6 month of the year and I would still prefer that my communications, contacts, etc, are secure from the likes of the bad guys or even the likes of the FBI. Or perhaps especially the likes of tyrannical regimes like the USA.
Just look at how he's trying to character assassinate Loretta Lynch:
According to ABC News, the former FBI director felt compelled to take a prominent public role in the investigation into Clinton in part because of a “development still unknown to the American public to this day” about former Attorney General Loretta Lynch that he feared critics would use to raise doubts about the integrity of the investigation.
"Gee, she was bad, but I can't tell you why! You have to trust me!"
What's he going to do? Leak it to a "friend" again?
"the leaders of the tech companies don't see the darkness the FBI sees,"
Not at all, we see exactly what you are claiming. We just know for certain your claims are lies.
Not mistakes, like a misunderstanding. Lies, as in you know damn well that you are lying, except we know damn well you are lying too.
We see and point out to others the inaccuracy of your claims.
We also point out the flawed logic of those false claims.
We have no interest in performing favors for one criminal group (you) over any other.
We disagree that you should be allowed to break the law in order to punish other people for doing nothing but the exact same actions.
Either it isn't OK to break the law, in which case your entire process is flawed,
Or it is OK to break the law, which makes it fine for you to do but at the same time means you don't get to punish anyone else for doing the same things because its OK.
I appreciate the work and dedication that law enforcement have to serve this country but that's where it ends. Cracking criminal is the task that law enforcement MUST do. The tech industry can help whenever they can but that's not a required responsibility. If they say they cannot help, they cannot help.
Fuck him.
Law enforcement at all levels, from small town cop to the director of the FBI, have become an adversary to all citizens, not just criminals.
The FBI does NOT GIVE A FUCK about protecting the average US citizen.
You want proof of this assertion ? Notice how the FBI was warned about the kid who shot up the school in Florida, yet the FBI did NOTHING about it.
Consider what the FBI would have done if that idiot shooter had presented a threat to a high government official. You can bet they would have done
something about THAT !!!
The FBI cares about doing what it takes to retain its own power. And that is ALL the FBI cares about.
Can people in the FBI decide themselves who to be loyal too? (I sure hope its not Russia)
He goes on to lament the lack of "true listening" between tech and law enforcement, saying that "the leaders of the tech companies don't see the darkness the FBI sees," such as terrorism and organized crime.
You colossally ignorant savage, you see tiny issues like terrorism and organized crime and don't see the darkness George Orwell, the Founding Fathers, and many others saw -- a boot stepping on a human face, forever.
Billions continue to live in despotism as their leaders use the tech you want for "crime" to catch and punish any challengers to their power.
Both Russia and China have leaders currently consolidating power for the long term, at least partly because of the lack of crypto government can't get into.
Thou impious fool.
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Wasn't he fire from being Director of the FBI? You don't suppose he has an ax to grind, do you? Unrepentant liars and criminals always find a need to go about trying to justify themselves. Just look at Hilderbeast. Never able to admit that she and her ideology are bankrupt.
If FBI get their back door as they wish, then they would be able to unlock devices of tourists and business people visiting the USA.
Since USA have not been elected to rule the world, then other governments should have the possibilities.
This would enable china to spy on business phones entering China.
I think its absolutely clear the FBI never had much respect for this community at all.
We;re all one horrid nerd stereotype or the next true or not.
They spend more time worrying that we are not being submissive enough to them, rather than protecting the people they were sworn to protect.
The rest of us have found out working with these "smash fly with hammer" clowns is a waste of time, as they are treacherous, egotisitical, and care more about maintaining power and control than protecting people. So, using backdoorless encryption does more to help actual people.
They absolutely hate this, and hate the fact that someone is doing their job for them, protecting people. And does it with less malice, spite, and hatred.
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he was already crazy well before 2014.
"the leaders of the tech companies don't see the darkness the FBI sees"
They see a different, more dangerous kind of darkness: one brought about by the FBI and law enforcement and the rest of the government itself. The 4th amendment and the broader right to privacy itself is supremely important to avoiding a tyrannical government.
This is more important than any benefit against terrorism and organized crime.
Well, this kind of attitude makes me glad he's out. Sorry being FBI is hard. Yes, taking away people's rights would make your job easier.
So what we know about Comey is:
(1) He was politically motivated in Hillary's E-mail case, trying to help her gain legitimacy after election.
(2) He was politically motivated to hurt Trump.
(3) He likes to spy on American citizens.
"A Higher Loyalty" indeed. The FBI started out being run by megalomaniac, corrupt authoritarians, and little has apparently changed.
I assume (hope) he's referring to loyalty to the nation and Constitution, rather than the president.
This book hasn't been released yet. The link provides a short quote and opinions about the context without sufficient information to be useful for anything but marketing hype. The link is an advertorial designed to generate hype.
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One of these individuals lied to Congress under oath and sabotaged an entire US election. Can you guess who?
I mean, the article proving this is bullshit is still on the front page here. At best it's a minor inconvenience. Your phone's been owned 8 ways from Sunday. This crap from Comey is all just theater.
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He [James Comey] goes on to lament the lack of "true listening" between tech and law enforcement, saying that "the leaders of the tech companies don't see the darkness the FBI sees,"
Similarly, the FBI appears to be not listening to the tech companies and not seeing the darkness they see. Things such state secrets repeatedly escaping (Snoden, Reality Winner, TSA keys), a perception that when a secret is shared with somebody else, it no longer is a secret and a belief that if one person can "break" encryption, so can somebody else.
If truly-unbreakable encryption is the norm, you really do make it a lot easier on terrorists and criminals. On the "pro freedom" side it also allows anonymous communications that a hostile government doesn't like to exist. Anyone who doesn't see these things is blind, ignorant, or a fool.
On the flip side, lack of truly-unbreakable encryption being the norm makes it easier to disrupt communications between terrorists and criminals. It also makes it all too easy for a government to turn evil quickly, assuming for the sake of argument that it's not already evil. Anyone who doesn't see these things is also blind, ignorant, or a fool.
So how can we have both a society that has truly free speech where encryption is the norm but also a society where crime, terrorism, and the like are not huge problems?
I recommend encouraging the use of routine, unbreakable encryption, while teaching our kids to respect each other and setting a good example as a nation by respecting other nations - that is, taking into account whether our actions as a nation will make countries or their citizens/residents see America.
In a couple of generations, we can be a country where kids and young adults know and value respect and where the rest of the world doesn't see us as a selfish country/bully that "needs to be given a bloody nose from time to time" or worse, and at the same time a country that not only says we value freedom of speech, but a country in which all private speech really is "private by default" and no court order can decrypt it in transit or in storage, because it will be technically impossible to do so.
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As an aside, we are now realizing that so-called "unbreakable" encryption on smart-phones isn't really unbreakable. This can and should be fixed.
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I meant "neither" not "both" - that's what happens when you edit your post several times and don't rewrite the title.
Obviously, I don't want "Big Brother" nor do I want to live in an unsafe society. I want a society that is safe because relatively few people are motivated to hurt others, not because "Big Brother" is stopping crime before it happens.
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' "the leaders of the tech companies don't see the darkness the FBI sees," such as terrorism and organized crime. '
It should be no surprise that we don't see things the same way. Your use of these words mostly describes political persecutions of certain people and groups. It reminds of of the short Netflix series Wild Wild West where a politically persecuted religious group flees India for the United States in the 1980s and sets up camp in Oregon. The locals have a strong prejudice against the religious group and attempts to stop the group from building a small city out in the desert. In response the religious community utilizes democracy (it's numbers) to take over the nearby town. This is in response to the government and townspeople going after the new city that gets built. Well financed players get involved and before you know it the group is having to utilize democracy again to survive. They draw in the poor and homeless and attempt to get these people registered to vote- for county elections-but the government illegally denies *ALL* there right to partake in the elections via a blanket ban on new registrations. The reaction to this injustice should be violence, and the group did arm themselves, and this is the sort of thing that the FBI is framing as terrorism. It's absurd. While bad shit did happen it comes off to me as mostly the result of prejudices and persecution of the religious group by the people and later FBI.
Similar things are happening today. The FBI raided a former activist, radio station, and home of one of the most prominent members of the Free State Project for "child porn" and are now investigating him for other "crimes". The FBI stole dozens of computers of his tenants and radio equipment in there attempt to shut down the speech of a disliked individual and his organization. The internet connection was used at the time of the supposed "incident" by hundreds of activists. The reality is there have been no trials because the entire incident was fabricated by the FBI as a means of attacking Ian Freeman- a leading member of a political community that is disliked. To make matters worse the FBI was attacked by Mark Edge for being hypocrites- a co-host- two weeks prior to the raid- for get this DISTRIBUTING CHILD PORN. Yes- the FBI says child porn hurts children and so if that logic follows then the FBI was hurting children. The FBI added servers and increased the availability of child porn for MONTHS. Free Talk Live was the only major syndicated talk show to cover the Play Pen case outside of tech circles. Similarly there are hate groups like "Stop Free Keene" that have been setup to spread slander about participants- particularly those in leadership roles. For instance the few dozens of libertarians at the state house, people running for mayor, leading activists, etc.
They're just lazy. In the past, detectives used to "detect." Now they want everything given to them with a button's push.
Police hold a lot of power. The definition of the boundaries on that power should not be definable by them.
Police (ethical ones) really only care about what they can do within the law to solve crimes. It’s not their job to think about the big questions, and I’m not going to fault them for that (although the top cops should probably try to step outside their box).
But it’s also why I don’t put a lot of weight into their opinions on things like this, or the rights of the accused, or the inviolability of personal property. And it’s one of the many reasons the people who *did* spend time thinking about the big questions gave us a Bill of Rights.
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Hacker culture started during the Baby Boom's coming-of-age period. The government was in a massive crackdown on the young population, in a ways far too numerous and complex to go into here. The reaction was a distrust of the government and institutions related to its support and function, and both cultural and organized resistance to them. This reaction was massive.
Among those institutions were law enforcement and the criminal justice system, which had been massively perverted to attack the government's perceived opposition. This is when the drug war started. This is when RICO was passed, encouraging police to steal people's property. This is when concentration camps for dissidents were legislated and designed (but, fortunately, not used and the legislation later repealed). This is when the FBI, along with special "red squads" of local police, were used to infiltrate and disrupt political organizations (See COINTELPRO),. I could go on. Police were viewed as an invading army.
Similarly, the Vietnam conflict and the draft - a threat of slavery and death - were used to "channel" the new generation into desired occupations - and to stretch their entry into the job market out by pushing more of them into college than would historically have gone, in order to avoid an expected economic crash to dwarf the Great Depression. Institutions in any way connected with the war were considered culpable and attacked: Banks (help fund the war), chemical companies (make explosives, defoliants, and Napalm), the monopoly telephone company (collected a war tax).
In the midst of this (and to a large extent, in the California counter-culture hub that became Silicon Valley), personal computers were developed and the programs and applications for them were designed and/or deployed.
Is it any wonder companies (pre-institutional-web), founded and built up by the people who grew up in that environment, as part of that culture, would distrust law enforcement and favor the interests of their equipment's users over it?
And who's the point company in this conflict? Apple! Built by Jobs and Woz. Who got their seed money making "Blue Boxes" - devices to bypass the "war-supporting price-gouging" monopoly phone company's billing - during that era.
Doesn't surprise me at all. (Of course I lived through it, and to some extent was part of it. So I no doubt have personally seen more of it than the massively sanitized, repeatedly rewritten, dumbed-down, and politically-warped historical record, as promulgated by the current media conglomerates, will ever tell you.)
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On the flip side, lack of truly-unbreakable encryption being the norm makes it easier to disrupt communications between terrorists and criminals.
Does it, though? Terrorists might have access to math, and so be able to implement strong encryption anyway, even if you put every subject's keys in escrow. Secondly, they might use a mode of communication that is not as vulnerable to disruption in the first place.
lack of truly-unbreakable encryption being the norm makes it easier to disrupt communications between terrorists and criminals.
Does it, though?
It makes those who use unbreakable encryption - especially in transit - easier to spot and disrupt. See: Great Firewall of China.
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With 5 to 6 TIMES percent of U.S. population sitting in prisons vs. European and Australian countries with similar standards of living and systems of governance I would say LEA is already doing an amazing job considering their hands are tied by "darkness".
Look how well they've done with civil assert forfeiture being so successful trend line over decades has actually managed to exceed sum total of everything reported stolen. Way to go LEA!! Truly an amazing result. Imagine would it could be if only speaking in codes unknown to LEA were outlawed.
Steady bending of sentencing to enhance plea deals as an effective means of extortion now results in a 60 to 70% disparity in jail time for the same crime for those whose only additional sin was failure to forfeit their right to jury trial.
What this country really needs is for more people to give up more of their rights so LEA can do an even better job and keep everyone even safer. We're already 5-6 times safer than everyone else....
Oh what's that you say? We're not? You mean even with all of those extra people sitting in jail U.S. is 3-4 times less safe? No... can't be... I'm shocked...
It's a shame Mr. Comey was constantly surrounded by poor imbeciles living under cloudy conditions most of the time but the point here is that the standard must be set for an ideal world or you've destroyed what you are trying to protect. Not unlike raising your kids while a teacher with a gun imposes upon them, for their safety of course. You would however be raising people who see absolute authority in weapons as most of us tend to remember our teachers for the rest of our lives, sometimes as people to exemplify. If I believe that I have no ability to protect my privacy, I'd rather not use the Internet. Most of the time I do not anyways, given there really is no way, but porn is free. I shudder to think who is using that data for what purpose but I know a few people (corporate entities?) can get it all, that's creepy enough. Treat the Internet like a cigarette, you start because of your friends, cool for a while, starts to taste great, but lets be honest, it's just bad for you.
Except when cops do it- then ignorance is an excuse.
We see the darkness every day. But we've also read 1984.
Can people in the FBI decide themselves who to be loyal too?
In the title, Comey is referring to Trump's demand of him for loyalty, which was highly inappropriate. The "higher loyalty" refers his loyalty to the Constitution of the United States, which rules above all men - including the President.
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If the only goal was to make law enforcement's job simpler and more efficient, then we would simply repeal the entire Bill of Rights. Having to get a warrant is such a bother, don't you care about nabbing that terrorist or kiddie pornographer?
At least until recently, that wasn't the way this country worked. Having to respect the rights of citizens makes it harder to catch criminals. But that's the nature of the job -- you don't like it, don't be a cop.
The moral problem is that Comey and all the right-wing do-gooders think only bad people want to encrypt stuff and only good people want to read it.
Where their logic falls apart is the "good people" section. Jesus said it best. "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone." Given the homosexual child rape of Catholic monks and the coverup of it, along with the divorces and affairs of countless married ministers, and the blatant greed and avarice of the mega-church pastors in Texas, I don't automatically assume someone in the church is free of sin or badness.
Comey not only threw some acid on the Hillary email investigation wounds with the admission that the agency effectively undermined any investigation, the fact that there was more to the tarmac meeting than admitted and that there could be more to come if he ever spoke in an investigation. Now he’s admitting that he himself wants to undermine your basic constitutional rights.
Comey’s book is as much an indictment at Trump as it is a big warning of potential blackmail on the Democrats. He’s basically acting like a mob boss that is pimping out child prostitutes to a senator, I’ve got the pictures, you know I do, let’s make sure you remember that when I come around 2 years from now.
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"the leaders of the tech companies don't see the darkness the FBI sees"...
Gee Comey, ever consider the fact that tech companies don't see this because the government chose to keep that CLASSIFIED?!?
Not to mention pointing out the fact that the tech companies kind of woke the hell up with regards to default encryption when Edward Snowden revealed in 2013 what the US Government does when encryption is NOT the default standard. How ironic our OWN Intel community caused this shift in default behavior...
I kind of understand his point, to be honest.
The old system of the police getting a warrant from a judge in order to wiretap a reasonably suspicious person's telephone, in order to make sure that he's actually a bad guy made sense. There was control and oversight, a reasonable expectation of privacy for the rest of us, and the police could use this tool to catch some bad guys (always with judge oversight).
Nowadays everyone only has to follow some short tutorials to get secure communication channels that world powers would have salivated over just a couple of decades back. This has obviously changed everything.
But that Pandora's Box has been opened, and can't be closed again, at all. Even if Google and Apple would play ball, there will always be open source tools that guarantee secure encrypted channels.
I would actually like the police to have the same capabilities as they had before - but I know that including backdoors, prohibiting encryption and other shenanigans simply wont work. And I have no idea what the law enforcement system could do to face this challenge.
After all the political policing used by the FBI against MLK, war protesters, and countless other dissidents, it's both hilarious and said to watch the modern American left fall down and worship at the feet of high-ranking officers in the American Gestapo like James Comey, Rod Rosenstein and Robert Mueller. At least be consistent.
for encryption the government is not a defacto 2nd party.
That would imply that you had the intention of sharing the information with them.
For communications, the other end of the conversation is the 2nd party.
For storage THERE Is NO SECOND PARTY!
The government is a 3rd party, as you had no intention of supplying them with access to this information.
They are trying to FORCE people who have committed no crime to make them a default 2nd party.
they have also show extreme bad faith in automatically recording and storing information illegally, without any knowledge of the public (whom they claim to represent) and keeping that information because they want it..They only got caught out by accident and did their very best to block that knowledge from the general public.
They have also established secret courts that claim to protect rights, however there is no public discussion of such things, no transparency, even long after the fact, and they have been caught intentionally lying about such things to hide their actions in court, destroying due process (parallel construction).
Is there any surprise that the public feel a need to protect themselves from such actions?
Note however that the government HAS worked to put in place protections for themselves against this, although with limited success, by trying to put in place exceptions for government officials.
That is not democracy, that is a surveillance state where the government wants the ability to dig through peoples history if and when it wishes for whatever purpose it wishes. It would be more democratically correct for the opposite to be in place - so the public has the right to dig through the history of the people asking to be placed in control.
He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you. ~Nietzsche Comey has some real problems. No matter your political affiliation, it is best for the country Comey and others like him are not in leadership positions. The FBI has become the enemy of the people and they are in denial over it.
They're primarily interested in societal control and that's what this is really about. The proliferation of encryption post-2013 has shut down large portions of the mass surveillance program and forced the government back into TARGETED surveillance, and they don't like that because they can't control the masses when they have to do targeted surveillance.
The very fact that Comey presumes to speak for techies (and seems to think that Silicon Valley represents them almost exclusively) is evidence of why we should be cautious of law enforcement, as well as those who would circumvent it. It may not be so much that we fail to see the darkness that the FBI, et al. confront. Rather, it may be that we also fear darkness in those who claim to protect us without understanding and honoring the breadth of our own principles.
For all those that say the "going dark" problem is good, don't complain about insider trading and so on. Encrypted communication hampers many efforts by law enforcement to gather evidence to bring someone to trial for crimes.
So when you see "obvious" cases of insider trading, ask yourself how would you prove it to be so when you can't present as evidence any communication between the person "obviously" doing so and others.
Or of course, we can all just accept that insider trading is going to happen forever going forward and that there's nothing that we can do about it - because encrypted chat/phones block access to the evidence required to prove it beyond a doubt.
Comey doesn't recognise the darkness which is the various policing forces.
Go well
But we are also capable of something you apparently cannot do: See beyond our own needs. Which is scary considering that your job is to put yourself into the boots of criminals so you understand how they think which allows you to catch them more easily.
We know that catching terrorists is harder when there is encryption. But flawed encryption means that terrorists will use perfect encryption while your industry, having to obey the law, has to use faulty one which can easily be cracked, not only by you but also by, say, North Korea. Which is certainly interesting in case of, say, a company developing new and more efficient means of enriching nuclear material.
Apparently you can't think this far. It's not that hard, really. In other words, I rarely agree with Trump, but firing you was one of his more sensible moves. We don't need ignorant people who are unfit for their job in critical positions.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
He admits he rigged his investigation under the assumption Hillary would win.
All the 3 letter agencies had a lot of trust... But they abused their position, the Snowden revelations made that clear.
They routinely violated laws in many countries, and when caught they weaseled out of it. Nobody admitted that what they had done was wrong, there was no massive change in leadership or policy. So trust was lost.
Suddenly, being safe from government abuse became a sales point, and tech companies were quick to jump that.
These days security people will discuss how to minimize risks from state actors "friendly" or not, even if answers aren't perfect, this is now a thing.
But this is their own doing. The 3 letter agencies lost public trust by invading people privacy in the shadows. We have a wide acceptance of search warrants from a public court; but when engulf the process in secrecy you loose trust.
IMO, lots of things could be unencrypted, but rebuilding this trust will take generations. And right now law enforcement in the US should perhaps focus on not shooting people, as a good first step to rebuilding public trust.
Fine by me, insider trading is the least of our problems. It offends the American sense of fair play, but is pretty harmless compared to the military-industrial complex, mass incarceration, environmental destruction, etc.
I don't feel safer with Comey's goons sorting through my emails, regardless of the software they write and use, and even if that software's source is public, I do not feel safer.
Comey see's one darkness and its the same darkness that many people currently conspiring against the president see: American's going down a different path.
I will feel safer from one darkness (Militant Islamic terrorism) with a secure southern border, as those in Mexico do not take American security seriously, nor their own peoples.
The other darkness however, the one that Comey is Dumb to, is that of an oppressive and politically charged federal government.
So write in your book, and in more books, about how for everyone else things are sunny and safe, and that we cannot see the darkness that you do.
Meanwhile because of your insecurities, we all have been revealed to the world, and your worst fears come true Comey: now the Russians actually ARE influencing Americans.
Why?
Because Americans are losing faith and trust in the USA Federal Government.
Last half decade it was one half of the Americans, now its the other half.
And then Comey drops this book.
Comey should be hanged, not because he is Dumb, but because his dumbness is dangerous, and made him unwittingly a traitor.
LMAO fat useless virgin APK is still triggered by Hillary, still spouting the same dribbling paranoid lies. Sad.
See subject: "... attack the messenger" & you ILLOGICALLY FAIL as always (especially vs. me).
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The NSA, CIA, GCHQ and DEA. They would have helped domestically.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
Not really. Figure that 15 to 30 percent of Internet traffic is porn. That's a lot of images and movies into which data can be injected steganographically. Do you really want to look through all that porn and determine whether it contains hidden messages?
No, wait....
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What about when the insider trading is
1) Private prison execs chatting congress people about to pass a law that increases mass incarceration?
2) Military contractors being given the heads up on what bills are going to be sponsored that call for more armaments?
3) Private chemical or other possibly environmentally destructive companies told ahead of time of repeals of regulations?
Seems like in those cases you VERY MUCH do care about the insider trading, it is the impetuous for all the previously described ills. As the old saying goes "Follow the money".
So he admits in an almost throwaway comment that he is mentally unstable and that Apple et al had the ability to push him over the edge. That’s the sort of situation that might get you fired / retired / reassigned or at least re-evaluated.
Oh wait.
Read this thread and reflect on how abusive government will take advantage of week crypro, or how criminals will not follow the law anyway, or how you probably not want limits on your key size or registration of all strong encryption. Live and let live!
They didn't. It was a false flag operation. Do try to keep up.
APK is just mad as his moose isn't putting out today
So instead he goes on a rampage across slashdot spouting conspiracy theories
I'm surprised this one didn't involve Sorsos, bump stocks, the pope, and moose based crypto curriencies
Go guzzle some moose cum APK you will feel better afterwards
LOL loyalty to the constitution! What a laugh. Comey? Since when did the FBI supporting Left ever give a shit about the constitution? Hell, when did they start supporting the FBI?
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
Let's all start a Patreon to help him get that butthurt removed. What a fucking douchecanoe.
Trump is a scumbag you wouldn't leave alone in a room with your teenage daughter and the FBI hates encryption? Well, that sounds like a book full of amazing revelations; I must get a copy and see if he sheds any light on just what those bears are up to in the woods. Damn bears!
"Encyclopedia" is to "Wikipedia" what "Library" is to "Some people at a bus stop"
Disgraced formner gestapo chief flatulently criticizes nouveau riche president for insufficient authoritarianism, pretends to be appalled by Silicon Valley tycoons who sell pretend-secure cellphones.
Repeat after me: "encryption BAD, because of the Donald".
And you have the word of a self-admitted insane person for it.
Free, as in your money being freed from the confines of your account.
ABSCAM is the only example I can recall where a ton of sitting politicians got actual jail time
other than that:
Nixon pardoned.
Scooter Libby pardoned
Bill Clinton never charged
Hillary Clinton never charged
Fast and Furious leaders never charged
Ollie North got immunity
Cheryl Mills got immunity
Reagan claimed dementia
the list goes on and on and on and on and on and isnt bound by party/race anything
When selling a book it is a good idea to sell it in large numbers. Who's going to buy it ? His friends in high places ? There are only a few of them, not enough to make a profit for his book.
So now that he wants those he screwed to fork their hard-earned cash and help him meet his sales target, he has to make it sound like he was suffering while screwing them.
As if corporate interests like Apple and Google did not know that if they wanted the tax loopholes to stay firmly in place they will have to play nice with the powers that be. If you remember his attitude before he was fired, he was not the one to suffer.
See subject: Why isn''t Hillary Clinton in jail for non-DOD approved servers w/ classified info. on 'em she illegally shared? Hillary, both as a FORMER attorney & secretary of state knows both housing unapproved by DoD servers + sharing classified intel thru them as well as NOT getting the DoD to look over + secure & ALLOW her PRIVATE unallowed server is BREAKING THE LAW & she KNOWS it!
She HAD NO OUT (other than a blackmailed OR bought off PAWN like you, smarmy little cocksucker) ON "I didn't know" ignorance bs on those very grounds IN THE EYES OF THE LAW - AGAIN, IGNORANCE IS NO EXCUSE & SHE KNOWS BETTER as a FORMER ATTORNEY and SECRETARY OF STATE!
IF I did ANY of the above? I'd be in prison OR dead for treason...
SO what makes Shillary/Killary the devil worshipper spirit cooker free then??
* Comey, FACT: I just PROVED I'd have done a better job - I'd have made that case vs. her & PUT HER SATANIC ASS AWAY for LIFE!
Leaking info. to the press too? Scumbag little bitch = Comey!
APK
P.S.=> The ENTIRE NATION (that's not part of your satanic cabal or bought off/blackmailed that is) KNOWS what's up asshole & you + all "your kind" will HANG for it (mark my words)... apk
The UK is worried about a Russian cyber attack, yet sides with this kind of view on weakening security and encryption standards, crazy is right!
Maybe they have subverted
A) the hardware
B) your nice Open Source software
It is not hard, if you have all the government revenue and power behind you.
Spamming moose fucker APK just can't resist spamming again
What no Jewish cabal in this conspiracy rant?
We know you are in a bad mood because your moose cut you off and you haven't guzzled 10 gallons of cum today so you now take it out on slashdot
Either that or you are upset because someone pointed out the truth about you above
I think Comey is so not what should have represented the FBI. This guy should have been a politician and not someone running the FBI. Now he is running off his mouth in a biter attempt at revenge. I commend Trump for firing this dirt bag and the list is long of the messes he created while at the FBI. I love how his book tries to push blame for his lack of objective focus in investigations such as Hillary Clinton's emails. Comey is a hack that played both sides like a double agent. He deserved everything he got.
He wants to invite the security concerns into the country;
Sure we can bring in millions of third worlders .... As long as we can monitor your kid's phones 24/7
> Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted!
> Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
Pieces of shit, it's one line of code to auto sentence case this that has too many caps
this was my yearly return to slashdot to confirm just how shit and cucked it is
remember when they were crying about their traffic stats? lol
darkness,
so they are not scewed at all then ?? pretty idiotic and just another attempt at manipulating the truth.
Why is it instances like this want to take away everybody's freedom because of one bad individual? Let's ponder that question then.
In light of recent violations of Attorney / Client confidential information being violated, I recommend that every Attorney take any written document, scan it into computer, along with any recording and encrypt the crap out of it before destroying the hard records. That way, nobody gets it without permission.
If there's no encryption, the criminals will simply exploit other people's computers, just as they have in the past. This leaves no forensic traces on the criminal's computers. Want to talk darkness? Good place to start, the Involuntary Cloud.
If there is encryption, anything that would leave physical evidence still does so. Forensic labs are underfunded or privatised. In either case, incorrect results leading to false convictions and false rejection of suspects are commonplace. Getting those sorted would make defeating encryption less of a necessity and would solve far more crimes that have no relationship to encryption at all.
Let's focus on that second one. Crime labs are a mess. DNA analysis is regularly tainted with contamination and hundreds of thousands of serious crime scene swabs (rape kits, etc) are left abandoned, their evidence decaying. We all remember the false fingerprint match in the Spanish train bombing. These things are STUPID!
Fix this first. Then fix police attitudes. They are trained to be warlords, which is bad for community policing , bad for trust, bad for getting people in Starbucks arrested on suspicion of being black in a built-up area, and very very bad for SWATting victims.
Better community relations will solve a lot of problems. People know a lot but tell little to thugs in uniform. Give them police they can trust. Community police. Honest police.
Speaking of which, did you see the reports on the police unit that turned rogue and were using their uniforms to terrorize, burgle and extort? And the Chicago "black ops" jail where people were arrested without charge and tortured into confessions?
Are these reports true? Does it matter? As long as they're believed, people will respond with fear, hatred and disgust. 99.9% of your leads burned because you fancied the thumbscrews.
Fix the forensics and the police, and you'll find there simply isn't much you need to decrypt. But as long as you try to fight the darkness with the night, you will lose.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
^ The memoirs of James Comey
An enigma, wrapped in a riddle, shrouded in bacon and cheese
Comey publishes a memoir that exposes what a complete and utter fraud (and moron) Trump is and slashdot highlights only that Comey found encryption to be a moral quagmire. I wish I could say I find this surprising.
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
Comey and other law enforcement types lacks perspective on this issue. They want an easy way to do their job at the expense of a fundamental right of the people who pay his salary. Police and detective work is made hard by our Constitution and laws, as it should be. Law-abiding citizens should not be treated like criminals to make life easier for people like Comey.
"I believe in Karma. That means I can do bad things to people all day long and I assume they deserve it." : Dogbert
The guy just whines and whines. "Its not me..its them"
Apk ran you dry of your abused downmod points again soundly defeating you by removing your 1 effete 'weapon' hahaha. You downmodded last time he posted what he has again now so he reposts nullifying helpless henry's like you. See subject as he says.
Since when have the FBI and the Left been on speaking terms, let alone supporting each other?
"When you have eliminated the unacceptable, whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truthiness" - Holmes
Highly inappropriate?? What the hell? Comey was a bureaucrat - and EMPLOYEE of Trump, who was elected to the exact job of being in charge of the executive branch. I think you Comey is a bit of a slimeball (as the book shows) and his use of the word 'loyalty' is a sign of just how things work within the government (for which Trump is an outsider).
Any good leader in an organization, anywhere, would fire an employee for not running things as his boss wished. Only to call it "non loyalty" is laughable, it's just plain insubordination. If you read even Comey's own words about the meeting, Trump sounds like any new manager meeting an employee, and Comey is instantly defensive and mistrustful. It is no wonder at all why he was fired. None of the senior bureaucrats liked Trump who was coming in to derail their gravy train they'd spent so long building.
Maybe if you could trust the government with your data we wouldn't need encryption.
Moos fucker APK isn't signing his work anymore
His brain is pumped so full of moose cum he thinks anonymous cowards also get to moderate
All he does is spam on slashdot
It is obvious he loves abuse otherwise he would stop posting here but he really loves the physical abuse when he gets ass raped by his moose
Comey's head is so large at this point it has its own weather system.
See subject: ... coming from myself that won a lawsuit vs. a city for having the shit beaten out of me by cops no less!
NEWSFLASH though, despite my "bias" (there IS none & this proves it) - TRY LIVE MINUS POLICE! We'd have chaos minus law enforcement.
Are cops perfect (is any man)? No. More people die from medical fuckups than from police by FAR mind you. Are professional athletes perfect?? No, they made errors too! You expect cops to be 'perfect' then???
Cops of today are better educated than ANY in the past @ least!
Minus police (which yes, we need) there would be TOTAL CHAOS. We make a social contract by hiring these officials to maintain order & then to let the legal system take its course!
(Yes, it's also far from perfect BUT it's the best we've got! Yes, it has been shown to be corrupted @ times (e.g. witness Hellary Clinton being allowed to go free after Comey the traitor f'd up trying "intent" bs to make it look like he actually tried, when the REAL CASE vs. her was "ignorance is no excuse for the law" since she was a former attorney & secretary of state who KNEW she wasn't supposed to have a private @ home server that wasn't DoD secured NOR was she supposed to share top-secret info.)).
Still, TRY live in a world minus policemen (you wouldn't SURVIVE it).
APK
P.S.=> All this "liberal" bullshit is DESIGNED by the "JWO" to take down OUR SOCIETY (which for the most part worked pretty good, hence the USA being "ontop" in most things for decades on end) - & not all "your kind's" CRAP (anti-common-sense) from brainwashed fools OR disgruntled losers that wasted their time & lives f'ing around vs. becoming the best you can be ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU ARE YOUNG (the future IS now), makes any sense OR holds a shred of water vs. common-sense & a system that was working (or are 'liberal cities' like Chicago under that FOOL Rahm Emmanuel doing well? Hell no)... apk
See subject: "... attack the messenger" & you ILLOGICALLY FAIL as always (especially vs. me).
* ... & You KNOW it!
(Additionally since it's the 2nd time in THIS thread/article you've done this as well as for MONTHS harassing + stalking me w/ your 'moose' projections of your OWN issues? YOU PROVE IT!)
APK
P.S.=> It's always a JOY showing the planet what "your kind" (defective snowflakes either HIDING behind UNIDENTIFIABLE anonymous posts OR FAKE NAMES online) are all about - FAKE LIVES of complete failure, lol... apk
What about when the insider trading is
1) Private prison execs chatting congress people about to pass a law that increases mass incarceration? 2) Military contractors being given the heads up on what bills are going to be sponsored that call for more armaments? 3) Private chemical or other possibly environmentally destructive companies told ahead of time of repeals of regulations?
Seems like in those cases you VERY MUCH do care about the insider trading, it is the impetuous for all the previously described ills. As the old saying goes "Follow the money".
I think the point is that in the "big picture", giving the FBI the ability to easily crack phones to solve and prosecute those very few cases of insider trading that could not otherwise be solved without cracking phones is not, on balance, worth the cost of giving up encryption.